A selection of things that have annoyed me today

[philmophlegm]

Part six
Warning: some bad language


The Cornish National Liberation Army (yes, really - I imagine a cross between Brian's friends in The Life of Brian and the Tooting Popular Front in 'Citizen Smith'.

What about this bunch of (possibly dangerous) crackpots?

They have described Rick Stein's and Jamie Oliver's restaurants as 'legitimate targets'. It has threatened vandalism and arson against commercial targets that it considers to be 'English'.

What do I (an English immigrant in that I moved to Cornwall from England even though I'm actually Welsh, although even then, my parents were English immigrants to Wales) say to the CNLA?

Re'th kijyewgh hwi!

Of course it's people like me that force up the house prices so that the locals can't afford to buy a house any more. Well wise up - nobody can afford to buy a house any more in England! In fact, house prices in most of Cornwall are well below the national average.

And in any case, if immigrants are buying houses in Cornwall, then surely it must be because locals are selling them. Should the locals sell them cheaply? I don't hear many calls for this from those locals.

Comments

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Well, there is the argument that when the children from the people from desirable areas leave to get jobs, they go to places like Liverpool or Warrington, which are much more deprived and, using their education, often privately funded and improved by having grown up in places where there was nothing else to do but read, they take away jobs from the inner-city locals.

Then when they've lived there a few years, they take all their useful skills and leave again for somewhere nicerer. That's what I did.